New rules designed to increase state money for used tires and decrease used-tire dumps were approved and adopted Friday by a state environmental board.
The Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission, the appellate and regulatory body of the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality, approved the new rules with no discussion and no dissent at its monthly meeting.
The rules alter previous tire regulations and rewrite them into a new Regulation 36.
They implement Act 317 of 2017, a 36-page measure sponsored by Rep. Lanny Fite, R-Benton.
After financial problems and dumps of hundreds of thousands of tires at some regional tire districts that received state funding, Act 317 sought to make tire districts and tire dealers more accountable and transparent in their operations by requiring business plans and electronic manifest systems that track tires.
The rules have been in place for several months on an emergency basis after Act 317 required them to go into effect Jan. 1.
The Legislature's Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee and its Rules and Regulations panel approved them for final adoption this month.
Metro on 07/29/2018